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Postal Devs ask fans to pirate games instead of using key resellers, giving explicit permission to fans (twitter.com)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Running With Scissors:

Key reselling websites hurt indie developers like us. There are many ways to obtain our games and we STILL prefer piracy over people buying from those websites.
Illegaly obtained keys are a source of money for scammers and it could even affect you as the customer in some cases.

NiX:

I love you guys and postal series, but I’m not made of money, if I can get a game for cheaper I’d rather pay less than more.

Running With Scissors:

Which is why we're telling you to pirate our games instead of paying a scammer who will cost us money and probably even get your key revoked
Our games are cheap right now through official sites. Is saving a few cents worth lowering the chances for releasing another POSTAL game?

NiX:

Isn’t pirating illegal? You want your fans get fines and shit? Now they are on sale so I might pick up some but normally i still rather get the game of g2a for cheaper

Running With Scissors:

You can't get fines if the owners of the IP give you permission to download.
Just know that by getting on G2A, we not only get no money, we also have to pay for the chargeback, that's the core of the problem and it means no new games in the future and no more RWS

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[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It’s interesting how scared some people are of pirating when the amount of people charged for downloading/streaming is so few it’s barely significant.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I used to pirate games and software. Then came the ransomware, and the crypto stealers.

So I'm afraid of pirating certain things, but not because of the IP issues.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Which is why when I made a game once upon a time I released checksums for the official files. I wish Running With Scissors would consider doing so as well.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Me and my kids love playing Starbound! It's a great game.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I appreciate it!

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Just finding a bittorrent client without giving my machine digital herpes gutworms is non-trivial these days.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

qBittorrent is what I've been using since uTorrent went to shit. Well there was a brief period where I used Transmission but it's so feature-limited.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thanks! It's a hassle to figure out which client is the sane one every 5 years when I setup a new PC.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I suggest downloading it from ninite so you can be sure you are getting a good copy of it

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Get an open source client like qBittorrent, kTorrent, rTorrent or Transmission

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Deluge and Transmission have been good to me. I don't need all the additional features of qBittorrent personally.

If you live in a country where VPNs are needed in order to avoid fines, you may want to use qBittorrent for its ability to bind itself to a VPN though.

I believe Deluge has the option too, but not as convenient as qBittorrent? I'm not sure.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I heard i2p is also good can always recommend the piracy community on lemmy/kbin

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Tixati has served me well for a long time now.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Let's be honest. Your machine likely already has digital herpes thanks to it's OS.